Having found out about this book from this source I had purchased, and read it.

While I note some of the comments made it has to be said this is a very personal account by one young man, and it is that brutally honest account that makes this book so good.

There are those that survive, and those who do not, and so often survival seems predicted from early experiences, but this book is not depressing, it is an honest account, with weakness and anger thrown in, and a reader will take away lessons which they trust they will never need call on.

I have read and re read "Heavy weather sailing" and the one thing they do not seem to emphasise is the value of "the will to survive."

For me a fantastic and a very positive book.